Doing Well Through Purpose-Driven Business
John Hope Bryant brings a commitment to purpose and performance into his for-profit partnerships. Through board service and strategic advisory roles, he works with private-sector organizations across real estate, financial services, technology, media, and motorsports to drive sustainable growth, measurable results, and long-term value for stakeholders and communities alike.
Leading Financial Empowerment
CIM-BGV Impact Ventures is tackling one of the nation’s most urgent challenges—affordable housing—through a powerful partnership that aligns institutional real estate expertise with a proven model for inclusive economic growth. With the launch of the Affordable Housing Impact Fund (AHIF) and a milestone first closing securing over $250 million in investment capacity, the initiative goes beyond housing development to deliver lasting community impact through financial education, resident support, and local economic engagement. By combining strong returns with meaningful social outcomes, CIM-BGV is redefining what’s possible when purpose and performance come together.
Professional Advisory & Partnerships
Bryant Group Advisors (BGA) is the professional advisory company for John Hope Bryant. BGA manages and oversees all of the professional, contractual, branding and outside advisory relationships for the Chairman, and is staffed by a team of project management professionals who are focused on driving performance against agreed terms, expectations and promised outcomes for our affiliates and partners.
BGA currently oversees business agreements tied to the Chairman covering the following industry sectors and interests.
Current Advisory Roles
Cybin is a late-stage neuropsychiatry company focused on advancing next-generation treatments to address significant unmet needs in mental healthcare. Backed by strong proof-of-concept data, Cybin is working to transform treatment approaches with therapies designed for lasting impact. The company operates across North America and Europe.
CIM Group invests in commercial property on behalf of large institutions such as pensions. As of 2024, the company owns and operates $30.2 billion worth of commercial property.
Creative Media & Community Trust Corporation (CMCT) is a real estate investment trust that seeks to own, operate and develop premier multifamily and creative office assets in vibrant and emerging communities throughout the United States. John has served as a CMCT board member and advisor since November 2022.
EY is a global professional services organization and a member of the Big Four, providing assurance, tax, consulting, and advisory services, including technology-led solutions across areas such as cybersecurity, cloud, digital transformation, and AI.
John serves as a senior advisor to KKR Real Estate, a global real estate investment platform providing equity and debt capital across a range of strategies. KKR Real Estate operates internationally with a dedicated investment and asset management team overseeing a substantial global portfolio.
iHeartMedia is a global media and entertainment company spanning radio, digital, social, live events, and on-demand platforms. John serves as an advisor on a forthcoming business initiative.
Digital Media & Publishing
Bryant Group Digital Media (BGDM) is the umbrella amplifying John Hope Bryant’s extensive work and programming across all of his companies and major initiatives. BGDM covers all of John Hope Bryant’s social media platforms, appearances, podcasts, articles, books, and Op-Ed pieces. The best way to keep updated with the most recent development in Bryant’s work and cutting edge thinking is to follow him across the platforms listed below.
Stay Tuned
The Operation HOPE Channel is a one-stop shop for videos, news, articles, research, and more, relating to financial literacy and economic uplift and opportunity. Click on the button below to visit the channel.
The Money and Wealth with John Hope Bryant dispenses Bryant’s ‘Straight Talk’ lessons on developing a wealth-building mindset, specifically how the Black community never got “the memo” on money – essentially how to survive and thrive in a free enterprise system.
John Hope Bryant is a regular on CNBC Squawk Box, MSNBC, and CNN as well as regularly appearing in leading print publications for his work on financial inclusion, credit counseling, access to capital, and entrepreneurship.
John Hope Bryant is a dynamic, critically acclaimed and highly-sought after speaker who has educated, informed and enlightened audiences both in the U.S. around the world.
Professional Advisory & Partnerships
Bryant Group Motorsports (BGM) is the natural extension of entrepreneur John Hope Bryant’s passion for everything motor-driven; from cars and supercars, to motorcycles, even the engineering and technological magic of modern airplanes and air-flight (where John spends a great deal of time every year). Bryant Group Motorsports focuses on John Hope Bryant’s passion and thought leadership on the global sport, the business, the untapped opportunity, even the philanthropy of the motorsports sector. Connecting a global sport with local communities.
Bryant's Racing Career
Bryant holds a full competition Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) racing license and earned a podium finish in his first endurance race. Recognizing the need to broaden and diversify access to motorsports, Bryant Group Motorsports (BGM) established the Bryant Group Motorsport Academy (BGMA). The program brings former race cars and a motorsports industry curriculum to K–12 schools in urban, rural, and underserved communities, sparking curiosity, skills development, and career aspirations in young people. BGMA also creates unique opportunities for industry engagement, helping manufacturers, racing teams, and insurers cultivate future talent while inspiring the next generation of automotive and racing leaders.
Digital Media & Publishing
Bryant Group Real Estate (BGRE) believes in the untapped value of America’s under-served and low-wealth communities. This drives many of our real estate investment decisions.Our vision is the re-investment in and revitalization of the parts of America that may have been written off. We see these communities as the future. We see inner-cities simply as centrally located real estate. Every inner-city in America will be reclaimed by investors, even the young, up and coming (and hopefully diverse) middle-class – and we plan to play a role in that.